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Jacob’s Ladder

Jacob’s Ladder. Victoria Molitor. (Brown, 2012 [Online]). perfectly fit in the garden!. Requires shade , moist soil and a soil type of loam Leaflets form a ladder Light blue and purple blooms. (American Beauties, 2012 [Online]). Description . Beautiful light blue and purple blooms

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Jacob’s Ladder

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  1. Jacob’s Ladder Victoria Molitor (Brown, 2012 [Online])

  2. perfectly fit in the garden! • Requires shade, moist soil and a soil type of loam • Leaflets form a ladder • Light blue and purple blooms (American Beauties, 2012 [Online])

  3. Description • Beautiful light blue and purple blooms • Yellow stamens in middle • Distinct flat, round, funnel or bell shaped blooms • Bloom in early-late May, lasts 2-3 weeks (Montucky , 2012 [Online]; Rangelander, 2012 [Online)

  4. Classification • Phlox (Polemonium) Family • Small family, about 300 species (Visitranier, 2012 [Online])

  5. Requirements • It grows from 12-36 inches tall (Parent, 2012, [Online]) • Does well in shady areas • Too much sun and dryness will produce a poorly grown plant with ugly leaves. • - Requires medium, moist, well-drained soil moisture and a soil type of loam • Hardy from USDA hardiness zones 3-8. (Parent, 2012, [Online]) (Mahalo, 2012 [Online])

  6. Root system • Taproot system • Is able to grow through the clay and loam (John , 2012 [Online])

  7. Habitat • - Moist woods • - Woodlands • - Parries • - Fens • - Common thorough Illinois (Delaware Wild Flowers, 2012 [Online])

  8. beautiful fauna! • Includes honey, bumble, little carpenter, mason, cuckoo, Halictid and Andrenia bees. • It also attracts many beautiful butterflies, moths and hummingbirds (flikr, 2012 [Online])

  9. useful • Used to treat sweating, fevers, snake bites, bowel (a part of the intestine) infections, and bronchial infections, eczema and some types of skin sores. (Riemer, 2012 [Online])

  10. Name • Jacob’s Lader’s Scientific name is Polemonium reptans • Got it’s name partially from a dream documented in the Bible by Joseph, and it’s pairs of alternating leaflets • . It got its name from the pairs of opposite leaflets that resemble a series of steps of a ladder in a dream that was documented by Joseph in the Bible. Minnesota Wildflowers, 2012 [Online])

  11. References • REFERENCE LIST • American Beauties. (2012). Jacob’s Ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://www.abnativeplan ts.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plant s.plantdetail&plant_id=69 • Brown, K. (2005). Jacob’s ladder, fern like variegated leaves with blue, bell-shaped flowers. Retrieved February 29, 2012 from http://www.youcanlearnseries.com/Landscape/Plants/ JacobsLadder.aspx • Delaware Wild Flowers, (2012). Polemonicae. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://delawarewildflo wers.org/plant.php?id=1436 • Deller, M. (2010). Appalachian jacob’s ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/polemonium_vanbruntiae.shtml • Diboll, N. (2010). Native plants and seeds. Westfield, WI: Prairie Nursery. • Flikr. (2012). Jacob’s ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://10.10.1.36:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=285312432 • Hilty, J. (2011). Jacob’s Ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://www.illinoi swildflowers.info/woodland/plants/grk_valerian.htm • John, P (2012). Taproot system. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://icrucified.com/icruciblog/ tag/taproot/ • Kurz, D. (2004). Illinois wildflowers. Cave Mountain, AR: Cloudlant.net Publishing. • Mahalo(2012). Hardiness zones. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 fromhttp://www.askwetandforget.com/t riffid/hardiness-zone-what-it-means-and-how-to-use-it • Minnesota Wildflowers. (2012) Polemonium reptans. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://www.mi nnesotawildflowers.info/flow er/spreading-jacobs-ladder • Morton Arboretum. (2012). “Jacob’s Ladder”. Lisle, IL: Morton Arboretum. • Parent, P. (2012). Jacob’s ladder. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://www.paulp arent.com/index.php?id=258 • Plant Life. (2003). Polemoniace—phlox family. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://montana.plant-life.org/families/Polemoniaceae.htm • Rainscaping. (2012). Polemonium reptans. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://w ww.rainscaping.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail &plant_id=69 • Rangelander. (2012). Jacob’s Ladder. Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://10.10.1.36:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=352 • Riemer. (2012). Retrieved on March 20, 2012 from http://www.nativeorchid.org/IT-InuvikTrip.htm • The seed site. (December, 2011). Polemonium caeraleum. Retrieved on February 29, 2012 from http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile224.html

  12. Acknowledgements • A ton of thanks for all of the help, to Mrs. Garetto, Mrs. Wetta, Ms. Hurdle and Mrs. Markunas.

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